A Brooklyn man admitted in federal court that he intentionally set fire to 11 unoccupied NYPD vehicles in a locked lot near a police stationhouse, causing over $800,000 in damage.<\/p>\n
By John Annese <\/p>\n
Source New York Daily News<\/p>\n
What to know<\/p>\n
A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty in federal court to setting fire to 11 unoccupied NYPD vehicles in June 2025, admitting he intentionally torched them in a locked parking lot near a police stationhouse.
\nProsecutors said surveillance video, physical evidence and abandoned items tied the suspect to the arson, which caused more than $800,000 in damage and raised concerns about public safety and police readiness ahead of a planned protest.
\nThe arson charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, with sentencing to be scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man admitted in federal court that he intentionally set fire to 11 unoccupied NYPD vehicles in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-190886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}